We analyze the performance of investable portfolios built using predicted stock returns from machine learning methods and attribute their performance to linear, marginal non-linear and interaction effects. We use a large set of features including price-based, fundamental-based, and...

Emerging literature focuses on insurers' earnings management using estimated liability for unpaid claims, known as loss reserve. An insurance company generally uses the traditional estimation methods with linear estimation to measure loss reserve error, but those methods are often criticized for...

We employ and analyze various machine learning models for daily cryptocurrency market prediction and trading. We train the models to predict binary relative daily market movements of the 100 largest cryptocurrencies. Our results show that all employed models make statistically viable...

We use supervised learning to identify factors that predict the cross-section of returns and maximum drawdown for stocks in the US equity market. Our data run from January 1970 to December 2019 and our analysis includes ordinary least squares, penalized linear regressions, tree-based models, and...

The number of people using the Internet of Things (IoT) devices has exploded in recent years. The instantaneous development in deploying constrained devices in numerous areas makes them vulnerable to assaults due to limited resources. Advanced cryptography cannot be constructed in these modest...

Building on an economic model of rational Bitcoin mining, we measured the carbon footprint of Bitcoin mining power consumption using feed-forward neural networks. We found associated carbon footprints of 2.77, 16.08 and 14.99 MtCO2e for 2017, 2018 and 2019 based on a novel bottom-up approach,...

The time series movements of Bitcoin prices are commonly characterized as highly nonlinear and volatile in nature across economic periods, when compared to the characteristics of traditional asset classes, such as equities and commodities. From a risk management perspective, such behaviors pose...

Methods for linking individuals across historical data sets, typically in combination with AI based transcription models, are developing rapidly. Probably the single most important identifier for linking is personal names. However, personal names are prone to enumeration and transcription errors...